Travelling The Scotland Tourists Don't Go

I love exploring lesser discovered places and today I’ll be travelling the Scotland tourists don’t go. As most visitors to Scotland flock to the Highlands or The Isle of Skye, the Kintyre Peninsula located on Scotland’s west coast is a beautiful and much quieter alternative.

Campbeltown in Kintyre, Scotland was once home to the whisky capital of the world and in this Scotland vlog I’ll be taking you on a road trip around the stunning The Kintyre Peninsula. I only found about the Kintyre 66 driving route after my trip, which I totally recommend if you do plan a visit.

Some other highlights of my time on the Kintyre Peninsula, include a visit to Tarbert, the Skippness Seafood Cabin and the Mull of Kintyre Lighthouse. You'll probably recognise the Mull of Kintyre from that classic Paul McCartney song.

Stay tuned for my next video where I’ll be visiting the community-owned Isle of Gigha – a one-of-a-kind spot in Argyll and Bute.

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If we haven't met before... Hi, I'm Ruth 👋 and I recently bought a campervan to travel my home country of Scotland after living overseas for 12 years. I’ve hardly seen anything or been anywhere in Scotland and now is the time to change that!

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[ruthaisling]

Thanks for joining me in exploring The Kintyre Peninsula! There was a problem with the prices not showing up on the screen in today’s video. I know the currency conversions are useful for some of you, so I will share them below:

Supermarket Shopping: GBP £35 / USD $44 / JPY 6447

Large wash: GBP £5 / USD $6.29 / JPY 921
Small wash: GBP £4 / USD $5 / JPY 737
Dryer: GBP £2 / USD $2.52 / JPY 368

Bake box tiffin: GBP £2.50 / USD $3.15 / JPY 460

[jdvannoy]

Cracks me up that people leave critical comments - if they know so much let them make their own videos. Smh.

[edfriday]

At 4.35, you’ve managed to video me and my wife comjng out of Cadenhead’s. Wonderful shop!

[NinjaBooKitty]

I'm in love with these honesty boxes! How nice to be able to have things like that! 💙💙

[pvpexoy]

I am from Nova Scotia, Canada. Cape Breton Island. I enjoy your podcasts .

[gimmeheadpeace]

I’ve been in Japan for 15 years and have just returned from Ireland. The beauty of the country and the warmth of the people, my people, shocked me to my core.

[davidpaterson]

Fun fact - there are 13 places called “Tarbet” (or various spellings of that name) in Scotland and all of them are at a low lying isthmus between two bodies of water. Because the name derives from the Gaelic words for “carry across” - so “carry (the boat) across (here)”.

[keithmoss]

Thanks Ruth; i went recently in early May in great weather after your recommendations. Gobsmacking and underrated part of Scotland for lets not make it too popular tho lol 😀. The windy road up to the light house is very challenging as you say especially when the early evening sun is low and nearly blinding you like when i drove there.... but so lucky there was no on coming traffic at the time. The drive on the smaller road up to and beyond Carradale overlooking Arran is stunning, but again quite winding.

[andymanser]

What lovely lady. Like how she tells history of places she guves good narratives in presentations
Scotland beaufiful place.
❤

[shimoejpsachio]

Thank you for your wonderful video. I had been at Edinburgh 46 years ago as student. At that time, I heard the song of Mull of Kintire by Paul McCartney every day. It is nice song and I love it.
From that time, vistting Mull of Kintire is my deam. But 46 years has passed. It may no chance to vist for me. But I am very happy to watch your video. I could see Mull of Kintire through your
video. It is so nice land scape and lovery heath. I hope that you wil be fine and show us more Scotland. Than you again.

[jenniferlevine]

What a beautiful place. Bonus to find out where PM did the video for Mull of Kintyre - love the song! Thank you for this wonderful tour of such a special area!

[カリフラワー-em]

ルースさんがお元気そうで嬉しいです😊
とても自然に恵まれてますね！
行ってみたい。

[DavidMartin-gxyl]

Hi Ruth, I look forward to watching your videos every Sunday. As they are informative and you focus more than other vloggers on the history, places and people of the area’s you visit. And you try to get a snapshot of life there. I thought you would have gone over to Davaar island which is in the Campbeltown bay. You can walk over to the island at low tide and there’s a cave with a painting of Jesus in it which has an interesting story behind it. Enjoy your time on Gigha 😊x

[saintuk]

The "Wee Toon" and Kintyre, finished my schools years there, then worked in Springbank for a while. 30 years on, I visit often as Westport has to be one of Scotland's best beaches. Amazing place that's often overlooked.

[theshowmanuk]

Lovely Scotland, another great video. Wonderful.

[davidponseigo]

I am from Louisiana in the Southern US but I actually had the privilege to work for Paul McCartney 25 years ago in New Orleans while he was visiting with his second wife before they split. I worked as a Personal Protection Agent for celebrities back then and while he was in New Orleans and hanging out at O'Flateries Irish Pub. I was hired by the Pub itself but I had the privilege to sing Irish Folk songs with a Beetle. I will never forget that and I have worked for over 100 celebrities over the years but only one Beetle.

[andymack]

Loved your wee story regarding the lighthouse, I had a similar experience when in the middle of nowhere I discovered Todhead Point Lighthouse on the East Coast (half hours' drive north of Gourdon). Sadly, it was being dismantled, but the two workers from the Lighthouse Service very kindly let me have a (free rein) look around. The Scottish lighthouse and their outbuildings are so special and the attention to detail is amazing. Thanks, Ruth, for showing us yet another great part of Scotland.

[christopherbrookfield]

Great video. The shopping you bought from Tesco's struck me as being a bit pricey, you just seemed to get a few basic items. I do like their unsweetened almond drink, which was in the clip. They have just announced record profits, and the prices just seem to keep increasing, so I signed a petition calling on them to reduce them a bit, instead of all the money going into the pockets of a few people at the top! All best wishes. ❤

[hollywebster]

I actually think I would buy this subscription box, for the annual price. I love everything in the box, except the measuring cups. They are very cute, but totally impractical.

[tigermcflash]

Thank you Ruth....excellent video and some stunning scenery...!